23rd birthday

Yesterday was my 23rd birthday. Emmanuel surprised me by taking me out to a Italian restaurant called Bencotto. The food was amazing and the date was surreal.

     After dinner we went to my house where I was surprised once again. My mother had planned a surprise birthday party for my sister and I. There were Hello kitty balloons, a Hello Kitty cake, and Hello Kitty gifts! I, for once, was excited and very grateful for what my mother did for me and my twin.

Thank you Momma <3

My twin Mayra with her Birthday crown

                                                                  Our Hello Kitty Cake

How I looked like For my Birthday

Fun Night, Family And lots of food <333

HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY PARTY

Reflection

It's so amazing to me that my first memory of my self as a child was 20 years ago! It was on my 3rd birthday and I was having a party. I remember getting home from a photoshoot with my mother & my twin to a surprise Birthday party from my Nana. I remember how my Nana & mother made my twin & I dance "sopa de caracol" and everybody was clapping and cheering us on. Now 20 years later, my grandma is no longer here but thanks to her I have this beautiful memory that will forever live in my heart. Hopefully I can have more memorable momments with the new people in my life who make everyday wonderful.

 Happy birthday to me :)

Subsonic Wind Tunnel - Immediate Goal

So, we have this top heavy 700lb fan to work with. Our current goal, which is split into two components, is to mount it horizontally via a frame that we are to carefully design and manufacture. I am in charge of the dynamic load analysis (analysis of moving parts) and my partner is in charge of the static load analysis (analysis of non-moving parts).

My analysis will mostly deal with the mechanical vibrations that are produced due to the angular velocity of the blades. The following are some of the conservative assumptions that I am making during the analysis:

- The fan is unbalanced.
- The fan blades will be modeled as a disk.
- The natural frequency of the system is three times bigger than the angular velocity input.

My results will yield a minimum cross-sectional area of the members that will be supporting the fan such that they will be able to sustain the forces due to vibrations and an area and thickness of my dampening material that will be used to dissipate the vibrations in order to not have the fan moving.

After my partner and I are done with each of our respective analyses, we will unite in order to refine our proposed frame design based on our calculations.

Meowwzie's Boyfriend

Although I would usually refuse to disclose my name on the internet, I see that my girlfirend has done so time and time again and I would assume that I need no introduction. Well, maybe just a little info about myself would be appropriate. The following bulletpoints will disclose info about myself in no particular order whatsoever:

- Boyfriend
- Son (I really shouldn't have to put this one up. I am 99% sure that most of you can come to this conclusion)
- Brother
- Honors Senior Mechanical Engineering Stduent (graduate by end of 2011)
- Repair Design Engineer
- Grease Monkey
- I like to get on my mexican mother's nerves with my scientific based conclusions versus her superstitional, religious, and any other of her conclusions that contradict mine. I do love her though.
- Buildind a low speed windtunnel along w/ its data acquisition software. This for my senior project.
- I try to be as level-headed as possible.
- I dislike arrogance and egotistical people (i.e. my equivalent peers).
- Favorite shows: man v. food, anthony bourdain's no reservations, ddd w/ guy fiery, anything ufo related on history channel, pawn stars, how its made, ...

Alrighty then, enough with the nonsense about myself. I will be writing in on my girlfriend's blog periodically.

For now, blog entry #1:

Right now right now, I am studying for my advanced machine design class. Its not hard, but its very time consuming. Then again, I am listening to the Lil Wayne Pandora station and therefore, it helps make time a little more enjoyable. I need to get this studying out of the way asap since i need to read up on my mechanical vibrations since my group and i are to mount a 700lb 50" diameter fan on a frame that we are to desing and manufacture ourselves. Although the vibrations on the fan will be of small magnitude such that rubber stoppers should be sufficient enough to dampen it according to my favorite professor, I would like to have all of the calculations behind that claim.

Anywho, enough of my academic life. After all, I do have a life to some degree. I love my girlfriend a lot and hence why i do so much. I want to make sure that our future life will be a hell of a lot easier in an economic aspect.

Alrighty then, back to studying. Btw, "Gangsta's Paradise" just stared playing on Lil Wayne Station. One word, "epic."

- Fictitiousforce